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DOE OSTI2021

Energy Savings Performance Contracting for Small Projects

Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPC) is a budget-neutral approach to make building improvements that reduce energy and water use and increase operational efficiency. ESPC can help public-sector planners use tomorrow’s energy savings to fund today's facility and infrastructure upgrades. This resource highlights strategies and case studies for implementing ESPC in smaller towns, rural counties, and small school districts to complete energy upgrades and maximize energy and cost savings.

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DOE OSTI2022

Energy Efficiency Assessment for a Microgrid in the Community of Castañer, Puerto Rico

The Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la Montaña (Cooperativa) and the Interstate Renewable Energy Council office in Puerto Rico (IREC) are leading the development of a community solar photovoltaic (PV) microgrid comprised of a 225 kWDC photovoltaic system tied to a 500 kWh storage system in the Community of Castañer, in the town of Lares in Puerto Rico. This microgrid will support the electricity needs of eight essential businesses and four homes. The Cooperativa and IREC requested technical assistance to help conduct a comprehensive energy efficiency assessment for the commercial buildings to maximize the impact of the solar PV microgrid. The goal was to identify energy conservation measures that would have the highest impact in terms of reducing electricity demand in order to; reduce the size and cost of the PV microgrid; and reduce the annual operating costs for building owners.

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DOE OSTI2021

An Ally in Your Corner: Benefits of Using Owner's Representatives

This short guide provides prospective ESPC customers with key considerations for retaining an owner's representative ("owner’s rep"), specifically regarding recommended areas of competency and qualifications. It also provides a summary of resources to help with finding or soliciting owner's rep services. This information may also be valuable for ESPC program administrators considering how to promote the use of owner’s reps for projects in their state.

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DOE OSTI2022

Developing Residential Energy Usage Baselines and Energy Efficiency Options

FCPC has been a leader in energy conservation not only in the State of Wisconsin, but nationally, as well. In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ranked FCPC 11th in its Top 30 Local Government List as a result of the extensive measures the Tribe has taken toward its goal of achieving 100% carbon-neutral energy independence. Some of these efforts include the reduction of the Tribal government workweek to four days instead of five, the purchase of renewable energy certificates to more than offset the Tribe’s annual energy consumption, the installation of solar photovoltaic systems, and the completion of energy audits of Tribal government facilities. Until now, FCPC has focused on energy efficiency options for government and enterprise buildings, but it is now time to broaden the scope of energy efficiency to include the Tribe’s residential community. The Tribe’s Energy Working Group has identified the completion of home energy audits as one of its more imminent goals, as formal energy evaluations have yet to be completed on residential dwellings on the FCPC reservation. Tribal leadership is already looking ahead to the anticipated outcome of these energy audits and has taken steps to develop a cost sharing program that will assist Tribal homeowners to implement identified efficiency options as a result of this project.

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DOE OSTI2022

Lehigh University Industrial Assessment Center (Final Technical Report for the Period 2016 to 2021)

This is the final technical report summarizing the activities Industrial Assessment Center at Lehigh University sponsored by the Department of Energy for the period September 1, 2016 till September 30, 2021. During this period, the Industrial Assessment Center at Lehigh University was successful in training numerous energy engineers of the future, and helped many manufacturing plants in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. The center and its activities helped save a great deal of energy, related fuel costs and along the way mitigated tons of CO2 emissions. The report covers many of the numerical details related to the center activities. The Industrial Center at Lehigh University is one of the most successful ones and this is made evident by the statistics included as part of this report and best center award bestowed upon the center.

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DOE OSTI2022

UF Industrial Assessment Center - Budget Periods 2017-2021. Final Report

This report summarizes the work performed at the University of Florida’s Industrial Assessment Center (UF-IAC) during the five budget periods (BPs) in the years 2017 through 2021 under DOE Award No. DE-EE0007707. The objective of the work is to perform industrial assessments to small- and medium-sized manufacturing facilities in the State of Florida and to train students in industrial energy management and in performing industrial assessments. Specific details about the activities of the UF-IAC (referred to as the Center) during that time can be found in the 20 quarterly reports that were submitted throughout the duration of the contract. The project start and end dates are September 1, 2016 and August 31, 2021, respectively. The project was granted a six-month no-cost extension till February 28, 2022, to accommodate unexpected delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This project was performed by the University of Florida (PI: Dr. SA Sherif). The scope of work includes six milestone whose description and outcomes are listed in the Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO).

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DOE OSTI2022

University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center (Final Scientific/Technical Report)

The University of Miami Industrial Assessment Center (MIIAC) is located at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering at University of Miami. The Center has conducted 402 energy assessments with estimated Total Energy Savings over $\$57.3$ million, Total Non- Energy Cost Savings of $\$23.7$ million, and Total Energy Saving as a 26% of Energy Costs of $\$311$ million. A total of 6.01 TBtu of energy savings were recommended as a result of energy efficiency measures resulting in $\$81$ million in cost savings.

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DOE OSTI2021

Industrial Assessment Center Program (Final Report)

This report summarizes the activities of the Industrial Assessment Center (IAC) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) under the Award No. DE-EE0007705 for the period of October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2021. The work performed under the award and related achievements are summarized per task in the statement of the work in the award.

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DOE OSTI2023

Renewable Thermal Energy Systems: Systemic Challenges and Transformational Policies (Report 2)

Two important challenges for RTES are the need for significant further innovation and deployment, particularly in the United States. In the face of continued success of other renewable energy technologies, such as solar photovoltaics (PV) and land-based wind energy for electricity, it is worthwhile to evaluate the current state of select RTES technologies in the context of technology innovation systems and energy transitions. This report marks a departure from the existing body of research we are aware of and have contributed to relating to RTES applications for industrial process heat in the United States. Our objectives for this report are fourfold: 1) Begin considering the challenges of RTES deployment in the United States through application of socio-technical and transitions frameworks; 2) Begin applying the theory of RTES as configurational technology innovation systems in the United States and for industrial process heat specifically; 3) Review RTES innovation, policies, and market formation activities in the contexts of Objectives 1 and 2; 4) Identify future paths for RTES research. Ultimately, the challenges associated with scaling the deployment of RTES in the United States are related to the need to develop a well-functioning innovation system that can overcome resistance from a highly stable socio-technical regime within a shrinking window of time to address the climate crisis, U.S. industrial competitiveness, and volatile energy commodity price shocks. Current efforts toward scaling for RTES applications in industry and buildings emphasize the need for further cost reductions, but not for interventions that support actors and their interactions and that increase the legitimacy of the technologies. As a result, there are significant opportunities to analyze the social contexts of RTES that can then be used to inform the design of effective, transformational policy portfolios.

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DOE OSTI2023

Medical Imaging Equipment Energy Efficiency [Slides]

The slide deck is being prepared for healthcare sector stakeholders as a resource on the energy use of Medical Imaging Equipment (MIE) which will provide an overview of existing work, review existing literature on MIE energy use and identify energy efficiency opportunities.

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DOE OSTI2023

A Guide to Engaging Underserved Communities in Commercial Energy Efficiency Field Validations

Underserved communities in the United States often experience the negative impacts of climate change and environmental degradation but enjoy few of the benefits of technological and environmental advances. The White House has addressed this inequity through the Justice40 initiative, which requires 40% of the benefits of select federal investments to be directed to underserved communities (The White House, 2022). Clean energy and energy efficiency are two highlighted investment categories, so the U.S. Department of Energy will guide implementation of the Justice40 initiative by, among other things, decreasing energy burdens, increasing parity in clean energy technology access and adoption, and increasing energy resiliency. A strategy for reaching these goals is to evaluate and validate new energy efficiency technologies in commercial buildings in underserved communities, where buildings may be older, smaller, and have deferred maintenance due to historical underinvestment. This paper develops guidance for researchers pursuing field validations with underserved communities. Historical redlining and past negative experiences with government and large institutions may make residents wary of participating in these field validations. Researchers, therefore, may need to spend more time building relationships and matching technologies to buildings. In this paper, we analyzed technical reports to identify common field validation building characteristics and conducted semi-structured expert conversations to identify key stages and major themes of engaging underserved communities. Results indicate there may be flexibility in site selection and there are steps researchers can take to support collaboration with communities. Results also suggest benefits to both the community and energy efficiency research.

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DOE OSTI2023

2022 Louisiana State University (Final Report)

LSU-IAC started in LSU’s College of Engineering in 2016 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s IAC program. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the grant end date was extended from 8/31/2021 to 2/28/2022. In the 5-year performance period, LSU-IAC has conducted a total of 67 industrial assessments and trained a total number of 41 students. We have recommended 408 improvement measures with potential energy savings of 58,951,388 kWh and energy cost savings of $6,817,783 if implemented. Of the 41 students trained, 16 received DOE certificates.

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DOE OSTI2023

Advancing Energy Efficiency Through Workforce Training

This Final Technical Report summarizes the work done on to develop and implement the Energy Basics Training Tool with industry partners and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. This project leveraged existing infrastructure and content developed by DOE in the Building America Solution Center (BASC) and Building Science Education Solution Center (BSESC) to design model content sets for use in entry-level construction programs at the high school certificate, boot camp, and other entry level training programs.

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DOE OSTI2023

Industrial Assessment Center Program Final Progress Report

During September 1, 2016 to March 31, 2022 period, the University of Massachusetts’ Industrial Assessment Center completed 59 industrial assessments at plants across New England. Total annual sales for those plants, which employed 8,861 people, was close to $\$ 2.59$ billion. Our 317 recommendations amounted to potential savings of $\$ 6,866,009$, which represented 14.11% of the total energy costs these facilities incurred. By the time this report was prepared implementation information was available for all plants. A total of 132 recommendations, or 41.64%, were implemented, with annual savings totaling $\$ 1,856,921$, or 3.82% of total plant energy costs.

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DOE OSTI2024

Next Generation Energy Training

Report of Activities developing and deploying training designed for the next generation work force for energy efficient and high performance construction.

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DOE OSTI2024

The Continuum from Energy Codes to Advanced Technologies: A New Approach to Training

In July of 2020, the unamended 2018 IECC became the statewide energy code for the state of Nebraska. This represented a significant energy code advancement over the previous code – the 2009 IECC. To support the implementation of the new code, the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA), along with in-state partners, including the Nebraska Energy Office and the Nebraska Code Officials Association, applied for and received a FOA award for an integrated and innovative training and education program.

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DOE OSTI2024

Industrial Assessment Center for Underserved Delmarva Area

This report summarizes the work done by the Industrial and Training Assessment Center at the University of Delaware under the award number DE-EE0008796. The 38 audits performed during this period (DL0178 – DL0214) happened from October 2019 to October 2022. The facilities audited belong to a total of 27 industry types, according to the Standard Industry Classification (SIC).

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